Self Reflection on E-Portfolio

Sherry’s Self Reflection of my ePortfolio.

I had a lot of fun creating my ePortfolio. I found using Google sites to be really easy. I had no problem adding pages, editing html and designing it to the way I wanted it to look. I did change my logo and the coloring of the pages about three times until I was happy with the coloring. I wanted colors that wouldn’t be too feminine. I wanted to make it visual pleasing to both males and females. Therefore, I went with purple and grey. I designed a logo because I did not like how my heading appeared on the portfolio. I found the heading to be too small to make an impact.
I organized my portfolio like a resume. I started with the home page which welcomes people to my site. The next page is about me. This tells my goals and my experience. I followed this page with my career objectives, which allows future employers to view my intent. I also did a page for my education, my networks, and a contact me. The important page is my work examples, these is where I will showcase my designs and projects. A broke this page into several links. Each of my projects is linked to a separate page that will open the design. On the page that it is linked to, I told about the projects process by including my FATP and why I choose the theme I used.
Also under my designs I have additional projects that I have designed. I included a page for my graphic designs, photography, memory videos, and websites that I have designed. In addition to my projects, I also included a page that links to all the learning resources I used to become proficient in my skills. I will keep this page updated as I learn more skills in the future. Another important page is my skills and tools page. Here I linked the tools to the website of the software and to my blog so that the viewer can see my experience using the software for the first time.
I found that keeping up with the organization was the most important step in this process. I did this by updating my ePortfolio every time I finished a project. I created the page and linked it to the main page. This made the process a lot easier than waiting and designing each page at the end of the semester. I wish I had done this with the personal learning tools. I didn’t realize that this was going to be a page that we needed for my site. Therefore, I had to add each one separately. This was the most time consuming part of the whole design process. If I had to do my portfolio over again, I would add each of my learning networks every time I used one. This would make the process smooth and not as stressful at the end.
The most difficult challenge of my ePortfolio was figuring out the html. I did not see the small html button until midway through the process. Once I discovered it, I enjoyed adding my projects because I could manipulate the html. I like designing with html, I feel it gives you more freedom over your creation. Overall, I am very happy with how my ePortfolio and all my projects came out. I learned a lot about creating podcasts and animations in this class. I only wish I would have taken this class before I took all the advanced classes. It would have made that learning process a little easier.